Imports, Exports, and Tariffs

Protective Tariffs & Nullification Crisis

Tariffs

Tariffs (a tax on imported goods) would encourage people to buy from domestic manufacturers instead of foreign.

This helped NORTHERN manufactures but the SOUTH would not benefit because their economy was based on import and export.

Do we still have tariffs on imported good today?

Multiple Choice

Why was this said, and what "section" of the country did it benefit?

"It is unconstitutional to pass a tariff that only benefits one part of the country while it hurts the other."

• North

• South

Multiple Choice

In the 1830s, South Carolina threatened to secede over the issue of

• slavery

• the Missouri Compromise

• tariffs

Secede

Withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an ALLIANCE, or a political or religious organization.

South Carolina, wanted to secede because of the Tariff of 1828, also known as the Tariff of Abominations.

The Tariff of Abominations charged tariffs/taxes on imported goods.

A tariff on imported goods were damaging to the economy of the south.

The reason for seceding was that only the south would benefit with the Tariffs of 1828

Multiple Choice

In the 1830s, South Carolina threatened to secede over the issue of

• slavery

• the Missouri Compromise

• the national bank

• tariffs

Multiple Choice

to break away or quit being a part of

• secede
• mudslinging
• nullfiy
• bargain

Multiple Choice

a vote of NO that blocks a decision 

• veto
• secede
• nullify
• protective tariff

Multiple Choice

To __________ is to void or cancel

South Carolina wanted NULLIFY a federal because the Tariff Bill was a benefit only to the NORTH and the southern economy would be in jeapodary because of tariffs imposed on imported goods.

• nullify

• veto

Multiple Choice

Going back to Jackson's Democracy, what is rewarding friends and family to powerful positions

• spoils system

• nullfiy

• bureaucracy

Multiple Choice

tax on imported goods to cause people to buy goods made in country

• protective tariff

• secede

• nullify